In my view, there is a special place in hell for those people who take advantage of the vulnerable. In two reports this week (here and here), Inside Housing […]
On Wednesday, the WG published its Programme for Government 2026-30. In many ways, this does not tell us anything more than we knew already. Housing gets its own page, which […]
There was an unplanned fire alarm 20 mins in, train delays/cancellations (which meant that my old mate and friend of this blog, Justin Bates, was going backwards on his train, […]
The Public Services Ombuds has decided to conduct its own investigation into two unnamed "housing associations" over their response to disrepair, with a focus on damp and mould, in respect […]
Just a short note to highlight the important Senedd Local Government and Housing follow-up inquiry in to social housing supply. On 21st January 2026, there were hearings in which, in […]
Happy new year. In the last post of 2025, I considered whether Wales should have a general enforcement duty on local authorities as England will do after implementation of the […]
In this post, I want to return to something which has troubled me, and continues to trouble me. Rightly, I think, in Wales, we consider ourselves to be progressive in […]
The PSOW has issued two public interest reports on Trivallis which have found broader systemic issues in their record keeping and repairs service, failure to follow their policies, breach of […]
There is lots of interesting stuff going on at the moment, and it is, of course, an important political moment. This post is a bit of a smorgasbord of relevant […]
In last week's post on what I have called Coastal 2 (inaccurately, perhaps, as Coastal has since changed its name to Beacon Cymru Group Ltd), I set out the headline […]